All Jacked Up And NO Place To Go

If you’re going to steal a set of new tires, you could do worse than targeting a car dealership. Those places are, after all, a rich source of new tires. But it’s worth remembering that they also tend to be a rich source of security systems, which means that should your acquisition mission be successful, you may want to get a good distance away before you set about replacing the old tires on your car with the new ones since it is very possible that the police will be on your trail in short order. You may want to travel further than, say, across the street before jacking up your car, is what I’m getting at here. For if they catch up with you too soon you may not have a chance to get it down, and cars on jacks are not exactly known for their getaway prowess, you see.

The man is accused of stealing tires off a black Dodge Challenger, then driving across the street and attempting to put the tires on his own red Dodge Challenger.

When police arrived, the man dove into his car to flee, but since his car was up on jacks to swap out the tires, the car didn’t go anywhere.

He was quickly arrested for the theft, but also for a stolen gun they found, seven felony warrants, and possibly a partridge in a pear tree.

I’ll Be Right There, Officer. Just Dropping Off The Bail Money


Good idea: Ditching the money as quickly as possible after robbing a bank.
Not so hot: Ditching the money by running outside and depositing it into your own account via the ATM attached to the building.

State police arrested McRoberts Williams Saturday after they say he robbed the Wells Fargo on Old Capitol Trail at the Prices Corner Shopping Center in Wilmington.
The 44-year-old California man handed a teller a note saying he was robbing the bank around 11:20 a.m., police said. The 25-year-old woman then handed over an undisclosed amount of cash and Williams left the bank.
“The suspect fled the bank on foot, and once outside he made a deposit in the atm on the exterior of the building,” state police said.
The man then ran behind the shopping center on foot where state troopers caught up to him and arrested him, police said.

Good Luck In Life, Kid. I’d Say Break A Leg, But…

Reading this, my mind goes back and forth between two thoughts.

  1. As someone who grew up around my share of irresponsible drunks, I kind of hope this motherfucker never drives or sees his kid again. But the way that Canada and the U.S. treat these things, I imagine he’s already doing both regularly.
  2. As someone who broke an arm once and remembers how much it hurt, I can only imagine how painful being carried with a broken leg by a tipsy arsehole in a panic must have been. I bet it’s the kind of pain that makes murdering someone in their sleep when you get better seem like a viable option.

Drunk Joliet motorist Christopher Hernandez crashed into three cars Saturday evening near the Louis Joliet Mall, and then left his seriously injured 10-year-old son at a nearby store, so he could flee the scene of the crash he caused, according to Joliet police.

Hernandez was driving westbound on Plainfield Road at Hennepin Drive when he struck the rear of the vehicle ahead of him, police said.
“This collision caused both vehicles to lose control and skid into two additional vehicles that were waiting in the left turn lane of eastbound Plainfield Road,” police spokesman Dwayne English announced. “Immediately following the collision, Hernandez fled the scene carrying his 10-year-old son, who was seriously injured in the crash.”

The child suffered a broken leg during the crash, and he was taken to St. Joe’s hospital, police said.

WWE Puts Band-Aid On Gunshot Wound

WWE Raw moving to TV-14 rating on USA Network
Well, there’s that fixed. We all know the problem with WWE isn’t insufferably long shows, boring characters, bad match finishes, awful dialogue and worse storytelling. It’s that they can’t say “shit” a bunch of times like AEW does. It has to be that, because the whole reason the attitude era was such a success is because there were lots of boobies and they were allowed to say “ass” and “bitch” all the time. It had nothing to do with having two once in a lifetime megastars at the same time leading the way while loads of other memorable, beloved characters all did their part to create a fun show that people wanted to watch. No, it’s definitely the potty mouth thing.

This is yet another example of WWE focusing on the wrong things. They have a long history of doing that, especially since WCW died and took the last true competition with it. That AEW hasn’t managed to bring the best out of them again is a sure sign that Vince McMahon, who has had trouble looking like much of a creative genius since the George W. Bush administration, has truly and irredeemably lost it at this point.

Andrew Zarian of the Mat Men podcast reported on Thursday that Raw will be moving from a TV-PG rating to TV-14 beginning with next Monday’s episode. 
“Starting July 18th WWE Raw will have a TV-14 rating moving forward on USA Network,” Zarian wrote on Twitter. “The PG Era is over.”

The TV Parental Guidelines describe a TV-14 program as one that “contains some material that many parents would find unsuitable for children under 14 years of age.” While a TV-PG rating is given for a program that “contains material that parents may find unsuitable for younger children.”

All I Want For Christmas Is You…To Get Vaccinated…And Maybe Take A Couple Voice Lessons…

At this point This video is a relic from back in the days when the public, the politicians and the health officials still kind of acted like we might be in the middle of a health crisis instead of whatever out of mind out of sight thing it is we’re doing now, but if I had to sit here and watch it, then by god you’re gonna sit here and watch it too.

You don’t have to stick around for the rest of the crazy people (I made it through three or four of them for some reason), but this first woman is something else.

Donning a red and white Santa cap, the woman, who identified herself as “Bridgette,” stepped to the mic during Tuesday’s public comments portion of the San Diego County Board of Supervisors meeting. Although not the only one opposing an extension of the local health emergency order — which later was approved on a 3-2 vote — she was the only one who came with a rendition of a beloved holiday pop staple.
She urged the body to “end this emergency” before breaking into song.

The “All I Want For Christmas Is You” variation has a little bit of everything. It namechecks the antiparasitic drug Ivermectin and Hydroxychloroquine. It pushes back against so-called “useless masks” and makes a plea for her children to go to school. It’s also a little pitchy and comes with a slow side-to-side jig.

“I just want my freedom now,” the woman sang. “The Constitution will show us how. Make my dreams come true. Baby, end the emergency. Let’s have a happy holiday, everybody.”
It should be noted that most of San Diego County’s pandemic restrictions have been lifted since June and school districts in the area have students in class in-person on a daily basis.

If you’re looking for a parody that more accurately reflects our current times, this one’s just about perfect.

We’re Back…I Think

That sure was fun, huh? I mean not that anyone really reads the site at this time of year (big chunks of summer are seriously worse than Christmas around here), but for those of you who do, sorry we left like that. Believe me, it was not planned.

You’ve almost certainly noticed and perhaps even saw me mention a couple weeks back that we’ve been having a case of the wobbles lately. Well, at some point yesterday we downgraded from wobbly to dead. What basically happened is that things that are not our problem malfunctioned in such a way that they created something that was. Ironically the final straw issue turned out to be with a WordPress plugin designed to make things run faster and better, a fact which I can laugh about now that I have hopefully gotten it dealt with.

There may still be errors ahead. I haven’t seen any yet aside from the ones I was expecting, but the intermittent nature of whatever’s been going on makes that hard to predict. For the moment, though, I’m just glad we’re back and that I’m just barely smart enough to fix things myself.

Sapporo Japanese And Thai Restaurant

I like Gill’s goal of trying a new place and different food every month. Keeps things interesting and expands your horizons. I’m not sure I could do it, honestly. Not because I’m not open to trying new things, but because I like what I like and if I’m going to drag my ass outside and pay for the privilege of not cooking, I’m generally inclined to pick something I know isn’t going to irritate or disappoint me. The best way to get me to try something new is to drop me into a group of other people, but again we run into the problem of things that irritate and disappoint me.

Today I kept up with a new goal. I love different ethnic foods, and have set a little goal of trying a different kind of food at least once a month.

You might remember that last month I went to Afrolicious Ethnic African food and had lamb on skewers. Today I crossed the ocean while in my own city and went to Japan.

What Did I Have?

Although Sapporo is an All You Can Eat buffet restaurant, I chose from the regular menu and had a bento box.  For those not in the know, a bento box is the perfect blend of things for folks who don’t necessarily want one particular item, but like variety.

My meal started with miso soup, a broth with pieces of tofu in it.  I absolutely love it, and would eat an entire pot if they would let me.  Next came the box, and like when my mom would pack my lunch when I was a kid, this didn’t disappoint.  I ordered the Ruby Box.  The items in it were deep fried tofu, tempura vegetables, chicken teriyaki, rice, and salmon rolls.  It was filling, without being overwhelming.

Where Is It?

The restaurant is at 96 Main St. East in downtown Hamilton, in one of many strip malls that make up this neighborhood.  The atmosphere is relaxed and fun, and just right for lively chat.

Today’s Word Is Shake!

I am such a goof. I also know I’m totally hooked on Wordle.

Last Friday, I went to play Wordle and couldn’t. I would reload the page and reload the plugin, and I would not get those magic words “Wordle screen reader extension running.” The extension still worked in Canuckle, the Wordle with Canadian-themed words, so I knew I hadn’t broken it. But I could not get it to work with Wordle! I was really jonesin’ for my wordle fix!

I tried everything. I ran it on multiple devices, and all said nope. I even looked at the blob of code, as if I would magically understand it and be able to find the problem myself. Ha ha ha ha ha that’s a good one! When I would think of it, I kept googling to see if their was an update. I didn’t see one. But I knew I wasn’t the only one who couldn’t play.

Then I was seeing more and more blind folks posting their scores and I wondered why I was still out of luck. So I went to the Chrome Web store again to see if the extension had an update…and it did!

So I went to check the bookmarklet again, and…woo! New instructions!

If you use the Chrome extension, you don’t have to do anything. It will just update and you can just look at the rest of us like we’re freaks. But if you do the bookmarklet thing, you have to remove the old one and put in the new one. But it does work. I’ve already played again.

Steve says he’s really happy the Wordle thing is fixed, and he doesn’t even play! Hmmm…what does that mean?